Century Offers DIY Solid State Disks On The Cheap

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Century Offers DIY Solid State Disks On The Cheap

If Crucial's $1500 SSD is too expensive for you, you might consider going the home-made route. Century will sell you an adapter which takes three CompactFlash cards and turns them into a SATA drive. The maximum size is a dreamy two Terabytes, but of course you won't find any CF cards that size. At $200 including taxes, plus around $150 each for three 32GB cards, you're looking at a 96GB SSD for around $650; that's less than half the price of Crucial's offering.

Remember, though, that purpose built SSDs are designed for heavy use and load balanced to spread the wear and tear on the NAND Flash. Much as an iPod doesn't make for a very reliable boot drive, we don't expect this solution to stand up to heavy duty use.